I Got Stripes

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"On a Monday"
Single by Lead Belly
Released1939 (1939)
Genre Country
"I Got Stripes"
Johnny Cash - I Got Stripes Columbia 45 label.jpg
Single by Johnny Cash
A-side "I Got Stripes"
"Five Feet High and Rising"
ReleasedJuly 1959 (1959-07)
Genre Country
Length2:04
Label Columbia 4-41427
Songwriters Charlie Williams, Johnny Cash [1]
Johnny Cash singles chronology
"Katy Too"
(1959)		"I Got Stripes"
(1959)		"Goodbye Little Darlin'"
(1959)
Audio
"I Got Stripes" on YouTube
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Billboard [2] Spotlight winner of the week

"I Got Stripes" is a song recorded by Johnny Cash.

Cash's version is credited to him and Charlie Williams, [3] but they borrowed from a song by Lead Belly titled "On a Monday". [4]

Contents

Lead Belly's original, also known as "Yellow Women's Door Bells" and "Almost Done", was recorded and released by him in 1939 [5] and reflected his "prison experiences". [6]

Johnny Cash version

The song was recorded by Cash on March 12, 1959 [7] [8] and released as a single in July, [9] with "Five Feet High and Rising" (another song from the same recording session) on the opposite side. [7] [8] [4] [10] [11] [12] [13] [ excessive citations ]

According to Robert Hilburn and his book Johnny Cash: The Life, "I Got Stripes" is a "raucous prison tale" written by Johnny Cash and Charlie Williams, a DJ from Los Angeles and Cash's friend. They borrowed from a song by Lead Belly titled "On a Monday". [4]

Charts

Chart (1959)Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 [14] 43
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [15] 4

References

  1. ↑ "I Got Stripes / Five Feet High And Rising". Discogs . Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  2. ↑ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 6 July 1959. pp.  27–. ISSN   0006-2510.
  3. ↑ Robert K. Oermann (1999). A Century of Country: An Illustrated History of Country Music . TV Books. ISBN   978-1-57500-083-1. I Got Stripes Five Feet High And Rising.
  4. 1 2 3 Robert Hilburn (31 October 2013). Johnny Cash: The Life. Orion. pp. 136–. ISBN   978-0-297-86658-9.
  5. ↑ "Song: On a Monday written by Leadbelly | SecondHandSongs". SecondHandSongs.
  6. ↑ Schmid, Will (1990). A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly, Teacher's Guide. R&L Education. ISBN   9780940796850.
  7. 1 2 Johnny Cash (2004). Johnny Cash, the Songs. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN   9781560256298.
  8. 1 2 Don Cusic (15 July 2011). The Cowboy in Country Music: An Historical Survey with Artist Profiles. McFarland. pp. 148–. ISBN   978-0-7864-6314-5.
  9. ↑ Johnny Cash - I Got Stripes , retrieved 2019-06-15
  10. ↑ Steve Turner (30 October 2005). The Man Called CASH: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend. Thomas Nelson. pp. 245–. ISBN   978-1-4185-7809-1.
  11. ↑ C. Eric Banister (1 August 2014). Johnny Cash FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Man in Black. Backbeat Books. pp. 62–. ISBN   978-1-61713-608-5.
  12. ↑ John M. Alexander (16 April 2018). The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash. University of Arkansas Press. pp. 6–. ISBN   978-1-61075-628-0.
  13. ↑ Red Robinson; Peggy Hodgins (1983). Rockbound: Rock'n'roll Encounters. Hancock House. ISBN   978-0-88839-162-9.
  14. ↑ "Johnny Cash Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  15. ↑ "Johnny Cash Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
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